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by johncolanduoni 295 days ago
A trillion dollar company (that loves huge vanity projects) gave up on maintaining a browser because it was too much work and just ship a Chrome fork now. I won’t defend Mozilla’s allocation of their resources, but even if they put it all into the “right” Firefox features the web platform is too complex and too much of a moving target for a company with mere centi-million revenues.
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adithyassekhar 295 days ago
To be honest they weren't trying to build a better browser. Atleast not anymore, earlier edge was nice. They just wanted more data for ads / money. Going the chrome way was more profitable for them.

I thought Mozilla was different.

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sitkack 295 days ago
They are also firing as many senior folks as possible. You should revisit what ever argument you are trying to make.
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johncolanduoni 295 days ago
Microsoft? Were they firing as many senior folks as possible in 2018 when they announced they would give up on EdgeHTML and Chakra? Or in early 2020 when it actually came together? That’s not my recollection of the FAANG-ish job market at the time these decisions were made.

If you meant Mozilla, they’re a total indefensible trashfire for sure. But I’m not convinced they could have succeeded with their resources.

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